Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...despite the dither. Britain provided enough rich, impressionable old ladies and idealistic young men to keep the movement going. In Hays Mews an office was always open where troubled souls could learn the trick of "two-way radio chats" with...
...vaguely suspected of Nazi sympathies to boot. But his record of intense loyalty to his Queen and adopted country during the war has made Prince Bernhard the most popular man in Holland today. In the last year of the war, he served as head of the Dutch resistance movement, later organized relief of stricken areas...
Died. Zara du Pont, 77, peppery maverick of the munitions-making clan, longtime champion of child welfare, women's suffrage, and the labor movement; in Boston...
...government which was put into office at the March 31 election is controlled by members of the Populist party, some of whom were collaborators during the German occupation, and many of whom took no part in the resistance movement sponsored by the liberal parties headed by the EAM. Leading policies of the present government are restoration of King George and a "Greater Greece" which will include the Dodecanese Islands, now coveted by the USSR...
...soon will be. Last week in Blackpool, England, Evans led a fight in the National Association of School Masters against an equal-pay-for-women plank. Said Evans, in the argument that carried the day: equal pay is an "ambitious and egocentric demand of the feminist movement [with its] pernicious and damnable doctrine of interchangeability of men and women teachers. [It denies the] elemental right of British boys to be taught...